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Article: The Caring Journey
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- Nursing BC
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia-ARCHIVED Feb 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The care of people with dementia, living in residential care, requires skilled nursing care. This article discusses how the development, implementation and evaluation of a dementia care education demonstration project in the Fraser Health Authority contributes to nurses working in residential care settings meeting CRNBC's Professional Standards.
As the number of adults over the age of 85 years increases in residential care facilities, nurses in residential care are seeing an increase in the number of residents with dementia. This is supported by literature that has identified the prevalence of dementia in people over the age of 85 as almost 40% (Graham et al., 1997). The number of older ...